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COVID ‘hug bubble’ lets people feel warmth of physical touch without infection

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When you’re stuck in COVID-19 quarantine, only being able to see your loved ones through a digital screen can be mentally taxing.

After all, as human beings, we crave physical touch with people that mean a lot to us.

This had always been the case for 97-year-old French woman Colette Dupas, who could only interact with her loved ones via video call and through a window in her care home in France.

But now isolation isn’t so bad, thanks to a newly-built COVID ‘hug bubble’, which allows…

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Written by: Danial Martinus


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